Join us for Poets in the Conversation Room!

Cosponsored with Grace Cavalieri, Maryland’s lOth Poet Laureate, Kymberly Taylor, Editor-in-Chief of Annapolis Home Magazine, and St. John’s College. 

The series is made possible by the Rowsome Estate honoring the memory of St. John's tutor, Nancy Buchanauer.

About the Poets

Michael Gushue is a graduate of St. John’s College Annapolis (Class of 1979). His books are Q&A For The End Of The World (with Kim Roberts), Sympathy for the Monster, Gather Down Women, Pachinko Mouth, Conrad, and—with CL Bledsoe—The Judy Poems, and I Never Promised You A Sea Monkey. He co-ran the BAWA poetry series and Poetry at the Watergate. He and CL Bledsoe and have published a novel on Substack, Chip Andrews, Boy Exorcist. He lives with his wife, Susan, in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington DC.

Kim Roberts Meikle is the author of seven books of poems, most recently Q&A for the End of the World, a collaboration with Michael Gushue (WordTech Editions, 2025), and two guidebooks, including The District’s Departed: Walking Tours of DC-Area Cemeteries (forthcoming from Rivanna Books, 2026). Meikle co-curates DC Pride Poem-a-Day each June, and co-directs the Pride Poetry Fellowship at the Arts Club of Washington. She has been the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities DC, the DC Commission on the Arts, the Rose Library at Emory University, the Cafritz Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation.

About the Poets in the Conversation Room Series

In partnership with Annapolis Home Magazine, St. John’s College presents a series called Poets in the Conversation Room hosted by renowned poet, author, playwright, and tenth Maryland Poet Laureate Grace Cavalieri.

“Annapolis needs poetry,” says Kymberly Taylor, poet and Editor-In-Chief of Annapolis Home Magazine. “It needs this incredible art form that helps us feel things beyond what we hear and read online, on television, and in the news.”

The poetry series is free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Works by the featured poets will be on display at the St. John’s College Greenfield Library and available to purchase at the St. John’s College Bookstore.

“I think it’s going to create a tremendous audience because it’s also entertaining,” says Cavalieri. “Poetry speaks to how we feel and how it is to be alive in this world—and who does not want to hear that?”

*Please note, registration is for estimating attendance; tickets are not required.